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title: A fronted adverbial can be one word (Suddenly), a phrase (Under the… — Fronted adverbials · tree and pragmatics
description: A fronted adverbial can be one word (Suddenly), a phrase (Under the bridge) or a clause (Because I was hungry). Who acts: fronted adverbial, I. A sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» of the english course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fronted adverbials, sentence 15

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A fronted adverbial can be one word (Suddenly), a phrase (Under the bridge) or a clause (Because I was hungry).

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**Who acts:** fronted adverbial, I · **What happens:** front, be · **To what, where:** one word

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Fronted adverbials» of the english course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fronted adverbial, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:15
# text = A fronted adverbial can be one word (Suddenly), a phrase (Under the bridge) or a clause (Because I was hungry).
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = english
# lesson = 029-fronted-adverbials.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fronted	front	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	adverbial	adverbial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	9	punct	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	clause	clause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
22	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **front** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | can | a fronted adverbial | one word |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | I |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:english:029-fronted-adverbials.lesson:15`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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